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Sometimes it’s hard for a man to hear what inspires him right now.
Often, by default, we live out old scripts of what’s important to us.
But those scripts are dusty. They address old questions, long ago answered or made irrelevant.
The First Session of The Inspired Man Summit
In the first session of The Inspired Man Summit, I give an introduction to the many ways you have available to clear out those cobwebs and see the world fresh again.
To look at your life today – and ask, “What matters to me now? What’s calling to me now? What inspires me now?”
The categories of clutter that clog our ears and obscure our hearts:
The first category is internal noise—beliefs and habits that you may have been carrying all your life that no longer serve you. In this first session, we’ll learn specific ways to identify and test them – and remove them if necessary.
The second category is external noise—the opinions of your family, sub-culture, the distraction of the digital omni-blather. And we’ll learn ways to lower the noise so that you can hear “the still small voice” within that is calling to you – and pointing you toward your most inspired and inspiring future.
The Second Session of The Inspired Man Summit
Then, in the second session, now that the runway of your soul is cleared of the rusty hulks of old goals, old ideals, old stories that just don’t matter to you much anymore. . .
We then walk through 16 specific ways to connect with that actually inspires you.
During the 33 sessions of this Summit, a persistent theme keeps arising: that it’s so much easier for men to “figure this thing out” rather than attuning “inwards.”
After all, the masculine hero’s journey is, on it’s surface, an outward one.
We guys love to “light out into the west” as Huck Finn famously said at the start of his adventure.
Outward journeys excite us.
The horizon beckons.
Inward journeys, on the other hand, often feel onerous.
I have attended 7 day meditation retreats, and I woke up each morning full of self-loathing and dread for the day. “Why the hell am I here when I could be out bounding in the hills, or sitting the local Indian village marketplace watching the colorful insanity, sketching pictures or writing short stories?”
For men, it’s often painful not to be “doing” something, and simply being.
Both have their benefits – and these 16 methods include both “lighting out” and experimenting in the world, and “illuminating in” – and discovering what might be whispering to you from deep within.
The Third Session of The Inspired Man Summit
And that takes us to the third session, a brilliant and provocative romp through the “bullshit generating brain” and the alternative intelligence of “getting dumb,” led by the septuagenarian rebel, Dr. Brad Blanton, best known as the author of the book, Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth.”
A self-confessed “trailer-trash redneck” who broke open the head of his abusive stepdad with a shovel when he was only 12, Brad ran away, manned the barricades in the 60’s against the war, dropped acid in Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, then went on to get his PhD in psychology and found the Radical Honesty movement.
Brad is deeply informed and hilarious, someone who has wriggled free of the common culture of white- grey- and dark-lie telling – and if you listen closely, I predict you will feel refreshingly liberated by the end of our dialogue together.
Brad Blanton is a truly wise man. And a good man, too.
Welcome to Day 1 of the Inspired Man Summit
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